For this year's Products of the Year, CRN editors selected five finalists among 17 technology categories and then asked solution providers to rate the products to determine a winner. After a survey that netted more than 5,000 responses, here are the hot products that stood out from the rest in 2016.

The move toward cloud and software-defined technology could result in significant growth for the Extreme Scale Infrastructure unit, and Jyeh Gan tells CRN how Dell EMC intends to lean heavily on partners to help those customers along the way.

Sammy Kinlaw says Lenovo's data center strategy, which revolves around partnerships with Nutanix, Cloudian and Nimble Storage, will not change as executives figure out how to drive those products into large accounts and keep prices low.